From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9333969071d4358 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie Date: 2000/08/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 659646128 References: <8ngv4j$ko9$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu> <399C4A87.F0A16B8C@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 966585320 27232 129.241.83.82 (18 Aug 2000 07:55:20 GMT) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 2000 07:55:20 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-18T07:55:20+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:26:47 -0400, Marin D. Condic wrote: >for high reliability and long-lived systems. Normally, you'd not use it >for things that are quick-and-dirty where (for example) something like a >shell scripting language would be more appropriate. For most other >things it works just fine. Check out the websites mentioned and the >others linked to from there. You'll find many people have written about >what Ada is useful for. Hrmf, I just made a small Ada program to format text to be sent as SMS to my celluar phone. It probably could have been done in perl, but it took me less time to do it in Ada and it worked right away :-) -- Preben Randhol - Ph. D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov